The New Nation - Internet Edition

BSS, Dhaka

The commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has asked banks and financial institutions to take precautionary measures against possible bank rubberies and other crimes at their counters.

Commissioner of the DMP Naim Ahmed in a circular yesterday referred to BRAC Bank rubbery at Sobahanbagh and Shahjalal branch of Islami Bank at Gazipur Crossing and laid emphasis on such preventive measures.

He said each branch of banks and financial institutions should designate an officer to take care of the security issues, install CCTVs at suitable places and make sure that those can not be destroyed easily and video pictures remain functional at least 30 days.

Visitors should be allowed through metal detector checks. Security personnel and guards at the entrance should stay at strategically secured places and should not be used in other job away from their designated duty places.

Moreover as they remain on duty at night, their full information profile should be at the disposal of the management gathered through proper investigation and if anyone is not having it, banks should do it quickly.

Security personnel and guards should have proper training, they should not accept entertainment from unknown or little known persons. If the location of any bank branch stands at a risky place, it should be shifted to secured place.

Specially, if any bank or financial institution is located at a place where any hotel or restaurant operates in the upstairs, down stairs or around it, the management should have additional security arrangement in place.

They should also use police escort while moving significant amount of money to and from the bank, the circular said.